The New York based Mannes School of Music has announced the appointment of Leila Josefowicz to the Mannes faculty, serving as the Felix Galimir Fellow in Violin Performance and Leadership. The 44-year-old American-Canadian violinist will mentor and teach lessons in violin, lead workshops, and develop innovative projects inspired by her career as a soloist. Read More →

Lars Vogt
© Giorgia Bertazzi

The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris has extended the contract with Lars Vogt, its Music Director, for another two years until the end of June 2025. The press release says: « Conductor and pianist of international renown, Lars Vogt has already done remarkable musical work with the orchestra since taking up his post in the summer of 2020, despite the upheavals linked to the pandemic and, above all, the courageous battle he has been waging against cancer since February 2021. Read More →

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has extended the contracts of Principal Guest Conductor Gemma New, and Composer-in-Residence Angelica Negron, through the 2022-23 season. Read More →

Denis Vlasenko

The National Navoi Theater in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has announced that Russian conductor Denis Vlasenko (*1981) has been appointed Artistic Director and Chief Conductor as from 1 January 2022. Read More →

The Odessa Regional Council has decided to name the city’s Philharmonic Hall after violinist and conductor David Oistrakh to the municipal institution. The Hall is currently under renovation.

Maria Joao Pires

Die portugiesische Pianistin Maria Joao Pires, 77, erhält den 7. Internationalen Beethovenpreis 2021 für Menschenrechte, Frieden, Freiheit, Armutsbekämpfung und Inklusion. Der Preis ist mit 10.000 Euro dotiert. In der Mitteilung der Beethoven Academy Bad Honnef heißt es « Maria Joao Pires steht auf ihre ganz eigene Weise für das enge Verhältnis von Musik und universellen Werten, für die Verbindung von sozialen und künstlerischen Aktivitäten und die Auffassung, dass soziales Engagement einen Musiker ‘besser’ macht. Read More →

Der Thomanerchor
(c) Gerd Mothes, Bach-Archiv Leipzig

Nachdem das Bach-Archiv Leipzig vor zwei Jahren weite Teile des historischen Archivs des Thomanerchors Leipzig als Dauerleihgabe übernommen hatte, konnte die gesamte handschriftliche Überlieferung des Bestandes nun digitalisiert werden. Die knapp 100 Handschriften mit insgesamt rund 20.000 Einzelseiten wurden in das digitale Sammlungsportal des Bach-Archivs integriert, wo sie ab sofort unter https://digitalesammlungen.bach-leipzig.de/ angesehen und heruntergeladen werden können. Read More →

Der Düsseldorfer Stadtrat beschloss nach Angaben der Stadt am Donnerstag mehrheitlich einen Neubau des Düsseldorfer Opernhauses. Zuvor hatte sich die Verwaltung gegen eine aufwendige Sanierung des bestehenden, denkmalgeschützten Hauses ausgesprochen. Read More →

The latest Karajan Community Letter focuses on two composers, Schubert and his Second Symphony and Saint-Saëns and his Third, the Organ Symphony. Here is the link to this week’s Karajanist Community Letter. Read More →

The international music industry conference Midem in Cannes has been definitely brought to an end, its organizer RX France has announced. Midem, where Pizzicato was a participant during several years and where first the Cannes Classical Awards, then the Midem Classical Awards took place, started to dip in the early 2010s, shortly after the organizer had cancelled the MIDEM Classical Awards which then were turned into the independent International Classical Music Awards, ICMA. Pizzicato has been a jury member in all those years under the three appellations. Read More →